Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WM. B. WHITE, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EGBERTS. RICHARDS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,595, dated'August22, 1565.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. WHITE, of North Attleborough, in thecounty of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented an ImprovedButton; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowin g speciication and represented in the accompanying drawings, ofWhich- Figure l is a front View, Fig. 2 a rear View, and Fig. 3 atransverse section, of one of the said buttons. Fig. 4 is a section ofthe perfo` rated metallic cup constituting the eye of the button.

In making my said button I compose it not only of a body or disk, A, ofglass, stone, or other suitable material, but of a flanged cup, B, sunkWithin auvoritce made through or in the central part of the said body.rIhe general form of the iian ged cup is analogous to that of a hat or apercussion-cap, the flange c thereof being either an entire annulus orconsisting of a series of star points or projections, as seen In LFig. 1. The bottom of the cup Iperforate with two or more holes, Z1 b,for reception ofthe thread used in sewing' the button to an article.'The hanged cup I make of metal, and it may be struck from a platethereof by suitable dies. It should be pressed into the cavity in thebutton-body so as to tightly t therein, and, if desirable, it may becemented therein.

When the button is fastened to a garment the cup will hold and protectthose parts of the fastening-thread which may be on the front of thebutton.

I claim- The improved button, as made of the perforated metallic iangedcup B and the hat annnlus or disk A, as described, arranged and combinedtogether substantially as specied.

WM. B. WHITE. Witnesses:

F. P. HALE, Jr., WM. TItEsoo'r'r.

